Diablo III: Reaper of Souls launches March 25

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We’ve finally got a launch date for Act V of Blizzard’s third march into the Burning Hells. Diablo III: Reaper of Souls is available for preorder today.

Almost two years after the initial launch of the PC version of Diablo III, Blizzard is giving users a reason to jump back in and guide their favorite characters through one more exciting chapter. Originally criticized for having a storyline that was too short and only available online, this new expansion to Diablo IIIcomes on the heels of the highly anticipated console release and looks to re-introduce PC players to a version of the game without the Auction House.

Despite being billed as a single chapter, Blizzard is charging $39.99 for the standard version of the game and $59.99 for the Digital Deluxe edition. If those prices sound familiar, it’s because Blizzard used the same setup for their Starcraft franchise recently. With a single new character, a level cap increase to 70, and a refactored loot system to compensate for the loss of the auction house, Blizzard needs to work a lot harder to convince players that this expansion is a whole new game worth of entertainment in order to justify those price tags.

Like the original, Reaper of Souls includes the same high quality cinematics and intense action sequences. There’s very little in the previews that give you a sense of how big this expansion actually is, but since it is being treated as a full game there’s expectations Blizzard needs to live up to when it launches.